The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Meryl]

When Aguirre ordered the boys to sleep with the sheep to limit predator loss, they felt they were being nickeled and dimed into performing their jobs under Forest Service radar.

=aside=Sandy

CONGRATS ON 4,000 POSTS!

[memento]

Because Ennis overdrank and was too dizzy to even stand, he decided to grab forty winks on the ground cloth and ride out at first light.

=aside=
Thanks Fran and Meryl. That was very thoughtful.
And Meryl, welcome back.

[Fran]

Hoping to protect his sheep from coyotes and other predators, Joe Aguirre put Jack under strict orders to sleep in a pup tent near the herd.

[Meryl]

Earl's murderers may never have been identified, but Ennis knew his father was aware of the answer to the riddle and held him under suspicion of participating in the crime himself.

=aside=Sandy
Thanks, it's nice to be back 

[memento]

“I guess,” said Ennis, slipping his hand up her blouse sleeve and stirring the silky armpit hair, fingers moving down her ribs to the jelly breast, the round belly and knee and up into the wet gap all the way to the north pole or the equator depending which way you thought you were sailing, working at it until she shuddered and bucked against his hand and he rolled her over, did quickly what she hated.

[story]

[Fran]

Ennis tells Alma Jr. that on June 5th he's supposed to be on a roundup over near the Teton Mountains.

[Meryl]

The elder Twists lived in an unprepossessing ranch house whose heyday, like that of its owners, was long over.

[memento]

Jack wiped away the tears from his eyes after the post-divorce misunderstanding.

[memento]

Round
 
Posts should include any variation of the word seven.

[southendmd]

The marriage between Alma and Ennis was torn asunder when Junior was nine and Francine was seven.


=aside= Sandy
Happy 4,000 lovely, witty posts!

=aside= Meryl
Welcome back, Madame Directrix!

=aside= Players
Can you believe, 700 rounds?!